"Macbeth was the first play I ever read."

-- Alan Cumming

#Play Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”

Source : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”
“If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it.”
“This life is full of great experiences if we only give it a shot.”
“We learn together in teams. This involves a shift from a spirit of advocacy to a spirit of enquiry.”
“Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.”
“What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.”
“The only menace is inertia.”

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